EXHIBITION
The Early Days of PostSecret
About the exhibition
Welcome to the first exhibition in the Digital Museum of Secrets! These postcards are the first ever mailed to PostSecret in 2004 and 2005. Do they look different visually? Are there common themes two decades later? How will the secret evolve two decades from today?

Gallery of secrets
Hand picked postcards from the early archives

The Very first PostSecret Exhibition at Artomatic in 2005.

Most of these hanging secrets were made from postcards I handed out in Washington DC. You can see how right from the start people incorporated drawings, pictures, graphics, and other art to further convey the emotion behind the confession.

From the early archives
Scroll through this early version of the PostSecret blog. 800,000,000+ views and 17 years later, still extraordinary secrets and no paid advertisements.
A project before PostSecret
Before PostSecret, I worked on two other postcard art projects. “Reluctant Oracle” was about wonder. You can still search the web and find newspaper articles and TV news segments about the mysterious bottles of Clopper Lake. Here is one segment that appeared on the FOX affiliated in Washington, DC. The other postcard art project I worked on before that was in Paris and based on a lucid dream. More on that to come…